I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.

Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.